"With rising urban poverty and decreased affordable housing, the homeless and other disorderly people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill effects of visible homelessness, many cities embrace zero tolerance or broken window pol…
"With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "disorderly" people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill effects of their presence on property values and public safety, many cities have wh…
"This volume looks at the emerging forms of intimacies in contemporary India. Drawing on rigorous academic research and pop culture phenomenon, the volume: - Brings together themes of nationhood, motherhood, disability, masculinity, ethnicity, kinship and sexuality and attempts …
"Had Katrina not happened, eminent cultural critic Giroux would have been able to write this book anyway, which is not to dismiss his analysis and message. He turns to the Katrina debacle as confirmation of what he sees as a dangerous strengthening of antidemocratic forces threa…
Shows how the tragedy and suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina signals a much larger crisis in the United States - one that threatens the very nature of individual freedom and inclusive democracy. This book explains how this crisis extends far beyond matters of leader…
"Had Katrina not happened, eminent cultural critic Giroux would have been able to write this book anyway, which is not to dismiss his analysis and message. He turns to the Katrina debacle as confirmation of what he sees as a dangerous strengthening of antidemocratic forces threa…
"Had Katrina not happened, eminent cultural critic Giroux would have been able to write this book anyway, which is not to dismiss his analysis and message. He turns to the Katrina debacle as confirmation of what he sees as a dangerous strengthening of antidemocratic forces threa…
""Marginality and Crisis competently documents and analyzes the manipulation, marginalization, and fragmentation of the mass of the African people through the agency of a decadent, materialistic, and fanatically secular culture that contemporary transnational capitalism purveys …
There are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually considered one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world's collective imagination--as a Bollywood fantasia or a slumland dystopia. Yet for many, if not most, people who live in the city, the neighbor…
"This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light of the impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to play a major role in the structuring of Africa's international relations. Africa…
"Provides solid, real-world evidence in the often abstracted theoretical debate on globalization and transnationalism"--
